Nehemia 5:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Berkatalah aku kepada mereka: "Kami selalu berusaha sedapat-dapatnya untuk menebus sesama orang Yahudi yang dijual kepada bangsa-bangsa lain. Tetapi kamu ini justru menjual saudara-saudaramu, supaya mereka dibeli lagi oleh kami!" Mereka berdiam diri karena tidak dapat membantah.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Berkatalah aku kepada mereka: "Kami selalu berusaha sedapat-dapatnya untuk menebus sesama orang Yahudi yang dijual kepada bangsa-bangsa lain. Tetapi kamu ini justru menjual saudara-saudaramu, supaya mereka dibeli lagi oleh kami!" Mereka berdiam diri karena tidak dapat membantah.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka kataku kepadanya: Bahwa segala saudara kami orang Yahudi yang telah dijual kepada orang kafir itu, ia itu sudah kami tebus sekadar kuat kami, manakan boleh kamu menjual saudaramu, melainkan tak akan jangan mereka itu dijual kepada kami juga. Maka diamlah mereka itu, tiada terkata-kata lagi.

Contextual Overview

⁶ And when I heard their complaynt and such wordes, it displeased me sore. ⁷ And I aduised so in my minde, that I rebuked the counsellers and the rulers, and saide vnto them: Euery one of you layeth great burdens vpon his brother. And I brought a great congregation against them, ⁸ And saide vnto them: We after our habilitie haue redeemed our brethren the Iewes, which were solde vnto the heathen: And wyll you sell your brethre againe, and shall they be solde vnto vs? Then held they their peace, and coulde finde nothing to aunswere. ⁹ And [Nehemia] saide, It is not good that ye do: Ought ye not to walke in the feare of our God, because of the rebuke of the heathen that are our enemies? ¹⁰ I and my brethren, and my seruauntes, do lende them money and corne: I pray you let vs leaue of this burden. ¹¹ Therefore this same day I pray you see that ye restore them their landes againe, their vineyardes, olyue gardens, and their houses, and remit the hundred parte of the money, of the corne, wine, and oyle that ye haue exacted of them. ¹² Then saide they: We wyll restore them againe, & wyll require nothing of them, and wyll do as thou hast spoken. And I called the priestes, and tooke an oth of them that they should do so. ¹³ And I shooke my lappe and saide: God shake out euery man after the same maner from his house & laboure that maintaineth not this worde, euen thus be he shaken out, and voyde. And all the congregation saide, Amen, and praysed the Lorde: And the people did according to this promise.

Bible Verse Review
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We after: Matthew 25:15, Matthew 25:29, 2 Corinthians 8:12, Galatians 6:10

redeemed: Leviticus 25:47-49

sell your: Exodus 21:16, Deuteronomy 24:7

shall they: Romans 14:15, 1 Corinthians 8:11

held: Job 29:10, Job 32:15, Matthew 22:12, Romans 3:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:13 - bought Genesis 31:15 - sold us Genesis 37:27 - sell him Exodus 21:2 - an Hebrew Leviticus 25:48 - General Leviticus 25:50 - price of his sale Deuteronomy 28:68 - there ye shall Nehemiah 9:37 - dominion Job 6:23 - Redeem Psalms 44:12 - increase Ecclesiastes 10:19 - but Amos 8:6 - General Zechariah 11:5 - sell Matthew 5:22 - his brother Matthew 18:25 - commanded Acts 11:29 - every 1 Corinthians 6:6 - brother Ephesians 6:9 - ye Revelation 18:13 - slaves

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I said unto them,.... The nobles, and rulers, and other rich persons that exacted usury of the poor:

we after our ability; speaking of himself in the plural number, which now obtained in the court of Persia; or of Zerubbabel, Ezra, and others, who, according as their worldly circumstances, having been captives, would admit of:

have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the Heathen; not that they had given a ransom for them to Cyrus, or any other king of Persia, which would be contrary to the prophecies concerning their redemption, Isaiah 45:13 but such who had sold themselves to particular persons in Babylon, who, without being redeemed, could not take the advantage of the liberty granted by Cyrus, and his successors; and it may be there were others also in the like circumstances, in other neighbouring nations, that had been redeemed this way. The Jewish canon i now is, he that sells himself, and his children, to Gentiles, they do not redeem; but they redeem the children after their father's death; which the commentators k explain of the third time that he sells himself:

and will you even sell your brethren? their lands and vineyards mortgaged to them, and even their persons:

or shall they be sold unto us? must we be obliged to buy them, and to redeem them:

then they held their peace, and found nothing to answer; being convinced they had done wrong, by the arguments used, to which they could make no reply.

i Misn. Gittin, c. 4. sect. 9. k Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nehemiah contrasts his own example with that of the rich Jews. He had spent money in redeeming some countrymen in servitude among the pagan; they were causing others to be sold into slavery among the Jews.